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What is Qlik Sense?
Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating actionable insights.
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What is Qlik Sense?
Qlik Sense is a business intelligence (BI) and visual analytics platform that supports a range of analytic use cases. Built on Qlik’s Associative Engine, it supports a full range of users and use-cases across the life-cycle from data to insight – with self-service analytics, interactive dashboards, conversational analytics, custom and embedded analytics, mobile analytics, and reporting. The solution comes in three different editions - Qlik Sense Enterprise, Business, and Team. Qlik Sense can be deployed in the cloud or on-premises.
The Qlik Sense analytics platforms aims to empower everyone in organizations to make data-driven decisions. People of all skill levels get analytical power, with associative exploration and search, AI-powered insight suggestions, AI-accelerated creation and data prep, advanced analytics integration, and natural-language, conversational interaction. They can share and communicate the insights they discover and get answers anywhere they work – with interactive and secure online and offline mobility. And for the enterprise, users get a platform with open and standard APIs for customization and extension, data integration and connectivity, centralized management and governance, and a Kubernetes based SaaS / multi-cloud architecture driving scalability across combinations of on-premise, private, and public cloud environments.
Qlik Sense Features
BI Platform Features
- Supported: Administration via Windows App
- Supported: Administration via MacOS App
- Supported: Administration via Web Interface
- Supported: Live Connection to External Data
- Supported: Snapshot of External Data
- Supported: In-memory data model
- Supported: OLAP (Pre-processed cube representation)
- Supported: ROLAP (SQL-layer querying)
- Supported: Multi-Data Source Reporting (Blending)
- Supported: Data warehouse / dictionary layer
- Supported: ETL Capability
- Supported: ETL Scheduler
Supported Data Sources Features
- Supported: MS Excel Workbooks
- Supported: Text Files (CSV, etc)
- Supported: Oracle
- Supported: MS SQL Server
- Supported: IBM DB2
- Supported: Postgres
- Supported: MySQL
- Supported: ODBC
- Supported: Cloudera Hadoop
- Supported: Hortonworks Hadoop
- Supported: EMC Greenplum
- Supported: IBM Netezza
- Supported: HP Vertica
- Supported: ParAccel
- Supported: SAP Hana
- Supported: Teradata
- Supported: Sage 500
- Supported: Salesforce
- Supported: SAP
- Supported: Google Analytics
BI Standard Reporting Features
- Supported: Pixel Perfect reports
- Supported: Customizable dashboards
- Supported: Report Formatting Templates
Ad-hoc Reporting Features
- Supported: Drill-down analysis
- Supported: Formatting capabilities
- Supported: Integration with R or other statistical packages
- Supported: Report sharing and collaboration
Report Output and Scheduling Features
- Supported: Publish to Web
- Supported: Publish to PDF
- Supported: Output Raw Supporting Data
- Supported: Report Versioning
- Supported: Report Delivery Scheduling
- Supported: Delivery to Remote Servers
Data Discovery and Visualization Features
- Supported: Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
- Supported: Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
- Supported: Predictive Analytics
- Supported: Support for Machine Learning models
- Supported: Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
Access Control and Security Features
- Supported: Multi-User Support (named login)
- Supported: Role-Based Security Model
- Supported: Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
- Supported: Report-Level Access Control
- Supported: Table-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Field-Level Access Control (BI-layer)
- Supported: Single Sign-On (SSO)
Mobile Capabilities Features
- Supported: Responsive Design for Web Access
- Supported: Mobile Application
- Supported: Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding Features
- Supported: REST API
- Supported: Javascript API
- Supported: iFrames
- Supported: Java API
- Supported: Themeable User Interface (UI)
- Supported: Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Additional Features
- Supported: In memory data indexing Associative Engine
- Supported: Machine Learning with the Qlik Cognitive Engine
- Supported: Augmented Intelligence and insight suggestions with Insight Advisor
- Supported: Conversational Analytics with Qlik Insight Bot
- Supported: Open APIs, in addition to Qlik Analytics Platform
- Supported: Multi Cloud Architecture with docker containers deployed and orchestrated within Kubernetes
- Supported: Data Catalog & Data Ops Management with Qlik Data Catalyst
- Supported: Public and syndicated data as a service with Qlik Data Market
- Supported: Qlik Associative Big Data Index delivers Qlik’s associative experience on top of Big Data
- Supported: Flexible deployment options including Enterprise SaaS and combination of cloud and on-premise options
- Supported: Enterprise reporting and distribution with Qlik NPrinting
- Supported: Advanced geopolitical calculation and geotagging with Qlik Geo Analytics
- Supported: Embedded analytic capabilities to build, extend and deploy custom solutions that are scalable and cloud-ready with Qlik Core
Qlik Sense Screenshots
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The Qlik Associative Difference
Working with Qlik Insight Advisor
What's New Qlik NPrinting
2019 Gartner Bake off
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Qlik Sense Integrations
- DataRobot
- Azure
- Cloudera
- SAP
Qlik Sense Competitors
- Microsoft Power BI
- Spotfire
- Tableau
Qlik Sense Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, Kubernetes |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries | Americas, EMEA, LATAM, APAC |
| Supported Languages | The Qlik Management Console is English only. The Qlik Sense client supports the following languages: English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, simplified Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Korean, and Traditional Chinese. The language Qlik Sense uses depends on the language preferences of your browser. The default reading order in a Qlik Sense app is left to right. You can change the reading order to right-to-left in your app preferences if your data or labels are in a right-to-left language such as Arabic or Hebrew. |
Qlik Sense Downloadables
- Qlik Sense Data Sheet Qlik Sense® is our governed, next-generation visual analytics product, supporting a full range of BI use cases for individuals, groups, and organizations, including self-service visualization, centrally deployed guided analytics apps and dashboards, custom and embedded analytics, and reporting. Business users of all types and skill sets get powerful, flexible visualization and discovery on any device, all within a governed framework that drives enterprise scalability and trust for IT.
- Qlik NPrinting Qlik NPrinting is Qlik’s next-generation reporting and distribution solution, helping spread knowledge and insight across the organization and beyond. This data sheet provides an overview of the product and its capabilities for report creation, distribution, and enterprise deployment.
- Qlik's Statement of Direction
- Qlik Insight Bot The Qlik Insight Bot provides an AI powered, conversational analytics experience, giving people a faster and easier way to ask questions, generate insights, and make data-driven decisions using natural language. It can be readily accessed from within Qlik Sense as well as through popular collaboration tools such as Slack, Skype, Salesforce Chat, and Microsoft Teams. Natural Language Processing (NLP) automatically trains itself and learns from user inquiries over time, and Natural Language Generation (NLG) delivers insights for not only what is happening, but also why – and where to go next. Insights include auto-generated charts, interpretations, key drivers, period-over-period calculations, predictions for measures, and even comparative analysis. Users can set alerts for KPI thresholds, share and collaborate conversationally, and even interact using voice – with Amazon Alexa integration.
- Qlik APIs A short data sheet describing the Qlik Sense APIs
- Qlik Data Catalyst Qlik Data Catalyst™ is a modern enterprise data management solution that simplifies and speeds up how you catalog, manage, prepare, and deliver your trustworthy, actionable data to business users across your enterprise.
- Qlik Scalability Tools
- The Qlik Associative Big Data Index The Qlik Associative Big Data Index delivers Qlik’s associative experience on top of Big Data, allowing users to freely explore and search Big Data repositories while leaving the data where it resides. This capability provides a governed, high-performance associative engine that can be deployed within sources such as Hadoop based data lakes, eliminating the need to transfer and prepare the data elsewhere before it can be analyzed.
- Qlik Connectors
- Qlik Analytics Platform - the power of the Qlik® Associative Engine and visualizations in the hands of application and web developers through powerful, open, and modern APIs – allowing you to see all the connections among all the values in all your data.
- Qlik Core - With Qlik Core, you can take advantage of Qlik's powerful associative engine to build, extend and quickly deploy custom interactive data-driven solutions that are highly scalable and cloud-ready. And built for Linux and running in a Docker container, Qlik Core applications can easily be embedded into any stack, IoT device, process, application, web page, or portal.
Frequently Asked Questions
Qlik Sense® is a self-service BI platform for data discovery and visualization. It supports a full range of analytics use cases—data governance, pixel-perfect reporting, and collaboration. Its Associative Engine indexes and connects relationships between data points for creating actionable insights.
Qlik Sense starts at $20.
Microsoft Power BI and Spotfire are common alternatives for Qlik Sense.
Reviewers rate Multi-User Support (named login) highest, with a score of 9.2.
The most common users of Qlik Sense are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Qlik Sense, a widely used data visualization and management tool, has proven to be invaluable for organizations in various industries. Users have praised its ability to provide consistent and visually appealing information, ensuring that everyone within the organization is on the same page when it comes to business performance. By reducing the manual workload of repetitive reporting tasks, Qlik Sense allows users to transition to more strategic business intelligence practices. This makes it a go-to BI tool for different departments and functions across the organization.
One of the standout features of Qlik Sense is its efficiency in processing large volumes of data and its flexibility in combining data from multiple sources. This enables users to create simple yet powerful dashboards that track impact and outcomes, financial performance, and cost modeling data analysis. Not only does Qlik Sense address reporting needs, but it also provides valuable insights that can inform decision-making processes. It has become an indispensable enterprise reporting tool, supporting management reporting and facilitating data exploration.
From inventory tracking and forecast analysis to providing executives with a quick overview of the company's health, Qlik Sense proves its versatility across various use cases. Its self-service business intelligence capabilities allow users to create personalized dashboards and analyze complex datasets without relying on technical expertise. By improving decision-making processes and saving time for users, Qlik Sense has established itself as a trusted companion in the realm of data visualization and analysis.
Users have made several recommendations based on their experiences with Qlik Sense. The three most common recommendations are as follows:
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Conduct thorough research before selecting Qlik Sense: Many users suggest exploring other tools in the market and comparing them with Qlik Sense. They recommend conducting research to ensure that Qlik Sense aligns with specific business requirements and needs.
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Take advantage of available resources and demos: Users recommend taking advantage of the free trial and demo apps provided by Qlik. They suggest testing the ease of use and functionality of Qlik Sense before making a decision. Additionally, users recommend exploring resources such as Qlik Branch or GitHub for extensions and add-ons to enhance the capabilities of Qlik Sense.
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Understand business processes and define requirements: It is recommended to have a clear understanding of the business processes and requirements before selecting any BI software, including Qlik Sense. Users emphasize the importance of defining evaluation criteria and having a list of requirements handy during the evaluation process.
Overall, users believe that Qlik Sense offers a robust BI platform with extensive capabilities, particularly suitable for large business setups in industries such as retail and manufacturing. Users appreciate its interactive visualization options, excellent data integration, adaptability to multiple devices, and ability to analyze data from various sources quickly. They also suggest investing in training and ensuring thorough knowledge of all features before attempting complex tasks.
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October 13, 2021
Qlik Sense drives business decisions.
Our whole company uses Qlik Sense. We are a very data-driven company, and Qlik Sense gives us a great tool to look at data and visualize and analyze data in different ways. An example is Sales where we drill down on Product and Color level to see what Brand and Products perform during each season.
- Data visualization.
- Access to aggregated data.
- Version handling of scripts.
- Integrations to 3rd party systems in and out.
October 12, 2021
Qlik Sense: Only for power users
Qlik Sense is being used by multiple departments across the organization. It provides information to our Consulting and Program Management teams to use with our customers, it provides business insights to support our executives, and it provides product utilization information to many other departments such as Technology and Sales.
- Filtering by different layers of client types, regions.
- Provides good data aggregation.
- Flexibility on pivot tables.
- End the "No Access Pass" issue. If people can't use Qlik, they will drop out.
- Load scripts/QVDs can easily become too heavy, crashing apps when they run. Partial or layered loads would be welcome.
- Give more ability to end-users to pick fields and order and allow them to extract reports (user stories don't work well) to known most common formats such as pdf and ppt.
- Make Nprinting user friendly.
- Better on-screen visuals.
- Scalable embedding within software solutions.
October 02, 2021
Simple Data Democratization
Qlik Sense is the primary BI tool used across our Product, Marketing, and Client Experience teams. The core driver behind implementing the platform is to create centralized reporting and deliver business insights from separate databases.
- I use the smart search feature often to help locate key parts of information across data sources.
- The expression editor is fairly easy to learn even if you don't have an advanced background.
- The data load editor has both advanced and basic functionality depending on your skill level and business needs.
- App rendering can be a little slow at times.
- Data model viewer does not save your layout.
- Would like an easier way to publish apps for non-Qlik users to view.
September 30, 2021
Qlik review from an end-user’s perspective
Qlik is being used as a reporting tool for standard operations metrics. It is also being used as a reporting tool for customers to understand their throughput and overall expected profitability. These reports are then used for internal and external discussions for decision making and benchmarking. All of these are reports are generated internally; customers cannot pull their own information.
- Very user-friendly dashboard experience.
- Easy filtering process with the filters remaining on multiple pages.
- Drill down features on the dashboards are detailed and easy to operate.
- Exporting functionality needs to be much better. PDF exports do not look aesthetically pleasing.
- Dashboard design can be complicated with the layout and data architecture.
- Storyboarding needs to be revamped or adjusted. The concept of “snapshots” doesn’t seem to work and filtering on them keeps turning off.
September 27, 2021
Great dashboard overview with extended slice and dice capabilities
Qlik Sense is used by both headquarters and subsidiaries to share common overviews of processes and metrics, such as a service backlog planning tool. We also use is as an integrated platform in our Salesforce solution so that salespeople can quickly compare pipeline to budget. The aim is to set up more Qlik Sense dashboards as integrated in Salesforce.
- Slice and dice.
- Dashboard overviews.
- Embed in Salesforce.
- Possibility for saving custom settings per user.
September 24, 2021
Qlik Sense review
We're using Qlik Sense company-wide for both operational and analytical needs. The cloud environment works really well, and they continue evolving the product with new features. They lack reporting capabilities but I know that they are working on that, so we'll see in the future.
- Scripting.
- Modelling.
- Sharing information.
- Reporting.
September 23, 2021
With Qlik you get reports that makes Sense
We use Qlik Sense to provide cross-functional reporting from our sales pipeline in O365 Dynamics CRM, work orders from Jira Service Desk, and contract/invoicing data from the billing system. The data is divided into multiple dimensions representing different sales areas, products, and on-boarding phases. Qlik Sense's ability to combine data from various sources has proven to be literally invaluable to us.
- Connectivity - the data can be sourced virtually from anywhere.
- Enrich-ability - sometimes you need add-on dimensions which would be really hard to implement in source systems. Add an excel file to the mix and voila - you have new dimension.
- Cloud ability - the old Qlik Sense Enterprise was in a way a blast from the past. The new SaaS edition is fresh, agile and although a little limited feature-wise in cofiguration, much simpler and easier to use.
- Linked reload tasks. Not yet implemented in SaaS version. We really miss this feature from the Enterprise edition.
- Private / public sheets has room for improvement. This feels like over-engineered feature. When you want to edit an app, you need to first make the sheets private before editing. At least there should be a possibility to opt for simpler developer experience.
- Custom domains.
September 19, 2021
Qlik: The tool for quick insights
It is being used across the whole company. I primarily use it to develop risk monitoring dashboards used to help identify and mitigate risks within our division. We also use it to track partner volume and performance. Another benefit provided our Relationship Managers the ability to rind potential opportunities for new partnerships.
- Allows you to create your own data models.
- Customizing the loading of data to fit your specific need.
- Plenty of objects to work with.
- More control over headings, titles, and column labels. Font size, boldness, and color.
- Ability to set an object to specific size.
- Allow for copying of measures for similar columns with minor changes.
Qlik Sense is currently being used just in my department (Customer Interactions). Its main purpose is to create and deliver dashboards with a high level of quality and reliability.
- Handles big data loads.
- Modify visuals with ease.
- Easy to use product.
- Hard to implement geographical charts.
September 14, 2021
A surprisingly light, robust, flexible and scalable solution to all analytical and reporting needs
Qlik Sense is being used at our organization as a single self-service business intelligence and reporting solution across all our geographical locations worldwide. Users in each department are served with both standard and customized analytical solutions that are published to their individual streams. Ad-hoc reports are churned out using the NPrinting ad-on of Qlik Sense. Our business analytics and reporting team manage the entire multi-server enterprise Qlik Sense environment from a central location.
Most of our business problems were the availability of accurate data and speedy access to standard reports. Qlik Sense has helped achieve these goals.
- Intuitive and easy to use dashboards.
- Pixel perfect reports.
- Scalable analytics.
- Centralized management of user access.
- Advanced analytical features require third party extensions.
- Building own extensions is not easy.
- Multi-developer environment is not well supported.
- Version control is missing.
August 20, 2021
Qlik Sense is the best BI tool I ever worked with. It opened my mind on the data world we live in
Qlik Sense is used across the whole organization to help our manufacturing plants to collect and access data easily and quickly. It also helps automatize a lot of excel reports and save time for people in order to analyze data instead of just preparing it. We now use it for our safety, Quality, Logistic, Production, Sales, Human resources KPIs. This system is a huge help in terms of centralizing a lot of information in a common place.
- Qlik Sense is very user-friendly and does not request strong coding knowledge. A non-IT person can easily take control and manage this platform with some training. Only SQL basics are enough to start. Plus the drag and drop system to create charts is very intuitive.
- The Qlik community is huge and when we have a problem that we can't solve it is usually very simple to find the solution online. Plus they have a training program and documentation online which is very helpful and useful.
- This system allows you to set up your own ETL process and data warehouse if you do not have too much data to handle. The QVD files which are specific to Qlik Sense are very easy to understand and convenient to use.
- More charts and visuals would be a plus. Also, some objects do not have enough options to color the way we want (filter / button / combo chart for example).
- Adding the option to have a box text when we hover an object would be great as well.
- A write-back function integrated into the platform would be a plus. Some company proposes an extension that we have to pay, but if Qlik could offer this for free it would be a great plus.
- Maybe in the future adding some algorithm and statistics to allow to do some predictive analytic would be a huge plus.
August 19, 2021
I'm just a novice, but eager to learn more!
There are users set up to access it across the organization, but only a couple of people use it. I am admittedly a novice, but I'm looking into training resources in order to build dashboards. Because our database is limited in its ability to do a lot of reporting, I'm hopeful Qlik Sense will help with some of the things I'd like to do.
- Dashboards.
- Fairly intuitive.
- Visually appealing for leadership team reports.
- I need more training...
August 10, 2021
Sensible Qlik Sense
We use Qlik Sense for reporting purposes. We also have done various report automations to reduce redundant manual work. Automations have been implemented to focus more time on validation and development. Managers/stakeholders across the whole organization use our automated reports to make decisions in a fast and seamless way rather than waiting for manually delivered reports.
- Great visualization
- Flexible and easy to use
- Allows reuse of code/query logic
- Creative dashboards
- Headers should be bold in a table
- More colors would improve visualization
- More templates would increase the options for a wider range of presentations
August 02, 2021
JollyRoger2021
QlikSense is being used by the network planning community to visualise data formed from various primary data sources of inventory and customer information to formulate decision making on growth and future investment. It is used to monitor and provide a window for planners to view possible "network at risk" issues or demand changes that require short term remedial action. It solves many of the issues of establishing a single source of truth, that planners can rely on. The volume of data that is processed daily/weekly/monthly makes heavy use of pre-processing and date dependent versions of data allowing comparison of versions.
- Out of the box [makes it] easy for Excel / Access user to get started
- Visual interface easy to use from novice to expert
- The flexibility to perform data ingestion and pre-processing into QVDs
- In organisation with a large number of teams and apps, a better front end category based or hierarchy based menu to find and execute the app.
- More flexible tiling on the app selection to scale tab cascade roll through etc.
- Data column selection could be improved to allow table, field drop view / expansion
Used across the whole organization to review business trend and performing comparisons.
- Visual graphs
- Drilling in for detail
- Comparison based on categories
- Carrying the same selection over multiple dashboards
- Pivot expansion should have the option to select which level it expands up to instead of requiring user to click on the "+" sign.
- More combo chart and graph options
- Auto correct the label so they do not overlap
We use Qlik Sense across the organization for both strategic level dashboarding and operational/department-level dashboarding and reporting. We currently have around 200+ dashboards in production touching nearly every department. Some dashboards are very small, purpose built to track individual business processes, while others are large, 80 million row data models encapsulating large swaths of the business.
- Qlik Sense provides one of the most flexible data modelling experiences with Load Script and the Data Manager.
- Qlik Sense continues to iterate on the user interface and provides new charts and features regularly.
- Qlik Sense provides a true Enterprise-level administrative experience, especially for managing security.
- Qlik Sense and NPrinting integration is weak and getting printable documents requires more effort than it should.
- Qlik Sense can offer better support for notifications around failing tasks.
- Qlik does not always publish a robust feature roadmap and there is some confusion on features between Enterprise and Cloud.
Qlik Sense Enterprise is used by two divisions of our corporation and is used by the majority of the departments within those organizational entities and in a very self-empowered way.
We have other business intelligence applications (from other vendors) as well that allow MS Excel Add-in functionality to review enterprise performance results, but for visualizations and dashboards, we selected Qlik Sense as the preferred tool in that domain.
We segregate the creation of enterprise quality transactional system sources of data so that the QVD files (i.e. data warehouse) is one layer managed by IT Support staff (including myself) but once the datasets of the correct data quality are made available as QVD files then the business staff in any of the departments has the access to build visualizations and dashboards from the data contained in those files in any way they see fit (including the blending of datasets as appropriate with either other enterprise-quality data or with their own spreadsheets).
We have other business intelligence applications (from other vendors) as well that allow MS Excel Add-in functionality to review enterprise performance results, but for visualizations and dashboards, we selected Qlik Sense as the preferred tool in that domain.
We segregate the creation of enterprise quality transactional system sources of data so that the QVD files (i.e. data warehouse) is one layer managed by IT Support staff (including myself) but once the datasets of the correct data quality are made available as QVD files then the business staff in any of the departments has the access to build visualizations and dashboards from the data contained in those files in any way they see fit (including the blending of datasets as appropriate with either other enterprise-quality data or with their own spreadsheets).
- Qlik Sense reports the data from the QVD files really well so the end-user experience is always optimum. Hardly any wait time is ever noticed at all which is magnificent compared to some other products in this space.
- The fact that Qlik Sense is also already fully mobile device-ready is a big bonus. Other applications have to have different variations either declared upfront or at least tested but Qlik Sense works really well whether via the designated proprietary Qlik Sense Mobile App (from the App store) or just in a standard browser like Safari.
- Data ingestion times are really optimum too since millions of records can be added to a QVD file in only a few minutes. This helps our organization with optimizing the overnight loading window.
- The background loading tasks scheduling is also user-friendly and robust with good error logging and failure/success monitoring available.
- We use SAP for transactions and SAP BI for data warehousing so it is very useful to also use Qlik Sense along with the proprietary Qlik Sense SAP Connector so that data can be retrieved as datasets from BW Query results. This helps leverage all our investment in the BW modeling including the full SAP BW query catalog when ingesting data into the QVD files. At the same time, the SQL connector can retrieve data from our SAP HANA database with ease too.
- The ability to develop on the iPad is also a bonus that is often not available in other tools in this domain.
- The security modeling is relatively easy to maintain and integrates well with our Azure identity management system. This all makes user management tasks very seamless and robust, ensuring that only those that really need access to the Qlik Sense system are granted hat access and if they leave their access is quickly revoked.
- The PDF printing of dashboards is part of a secondary product called NPrinting and we did not choose to additionally purchase this product. This means that broadcasting the results of a dashboard (in the enterprise on-premise product) is not really available to us, but I guess that was the trade-off. It would be great if that functionality was at some point built into the design/licensing of the main Qlik Sense Enterprise product.
- The fact that all loading is via proprietary syntax scripting is a little cumbersome and has a reasonably high learning curve. SQL is the standard and while some SQL statements can be used in the data ingestion process it is also then the mix of two syntaxes in one script.
- Some of the design concepts (such as table concatenation) in the scripting syntax are a little non-intuitive. I prefer to not have things happening in an automated way (others may disagree since it means less coding rather than more) but it just adds to the learning curve when things are automatically occurring in the background (which might come as unexpected outcomes to a developer that is new to the Qlik Sense product).
Qlik Sense is used primarily by our Delivery and Testing Services teams to track and manage customer health, margin analysis, a view of bugs over time, and project progress. We are currently rolling out more functionality to the sales and sales support teams to better track territory coverage, manage prospecting activities, and whitespace analysis.
- Data modeling
- Visualizations and pivots.
- Connecting to and combining multiple data sources.
- Ability to better control use of colors and fonts within table headers.
- Creating better looking visualizations.
- Ability to have end users reload an app without giving them powerful permissions.
July 19, 2021
Qlik Reporting
Currently being used for our Marketing, Operations, Management and Procurement departments. The whole business uses Qlik to report back keys information to the associated departments which enables them to keep updated on the business performance, discuss, and implement changes where necessary.
- Easy export of data
- Easy to use filters
- Good dashboards that are displayed very well
- Live data feed
We use it for data analytics and insight generation on our data warehouse. The aim is to replace Access & Excel and our daily and repetitive work tasks.
- Handles a huge amount of data with little effort
- Is easy to use for the end users
- Has a good amount of different graphs to select from
- Fairly easy to develop applications.
- Set-analysis often becomes very complex. An "Set-analysis Assistant" would be helpful.
- Graphs, as exported (PNG or JPG) for PP presentations, does not come out well with poor visibility.
- The is a limited possibility to change color schemas.
July 09, 2021
Splendid data discovery and reporting tool, easy to use, but more complex to master completely.
Since our company has gone through its fair share of M&A, we have assembled quite a few reporting tools (Cognos, QlikView, Business Objects, ...) from their respective sources. However, Qlik Sense is the default go-to reporting tool supported by the BI domain, in which all new reports are made, and which will take over all other reporting tools eventually.
It is currently being used to monitor the performance of (processes in) a broad range of departments, most notably (but not limited to) sales, operational support, finance, marketing, customer support and so on.
Most of them are used as a follow-up on the day-to-day business, although some of them are already trying to predict where issues might arise should no action be taken, or where there is potential for new revenue (through new sales, upsell, cross-sell).
It is currently being used to monitor the performance of (processes in) a broad range of departments, most notably (but not limited to) sales, operational support, finance, marketing, customer support and so on.
Most of them are used as a follow-up on the day-to-day business, although some of them are already trying to predict where issues might arise should no action be taken, or where there is potential for new revenue (through new sales, upsell, cross-sell).
- Drilling down: it's easy to pinpoint a pain point by just drilling with the filters and watch how all the visuals follow.
- Dynamic/interactive
- Performant, even despite large data sets (if implemented well with QVD's)
- scripting language/set analysis can be complex; it takes quite some experience to figure out how to get a formula exactly right, with the different types of brackets, the $, the NUM#, Date, Date#, etc.
- case when: a simple yet for some reason missing feature
- a resume function when a load gives an error after 15 sections would be convenient, so you wouldn't have to go through all of them again.
July 09, 2021
Qlik Sense Review
Qlik Sense is being used across [the] department and across [the] company. We have implemented Qlik view before.
The problem we face when implementing Qlik Sense compared to Qlik View is sometimes with the display on mobile is too big and how should we explain it to the user. For example we used KPI, only 2 KPI almost fills the cellphone screen for the Qlik Sense version in February.
The problem we face when implementing Qlik Sense compared to Qlik View is sometimes with the display on mobile is too big and how should we explain it to the user. For example we used KPI, only 2 KPI almost fills the cellphone screen for the Qlik Sense version in February.
- Augmented Intelligence
- Ease of use
- Associative Engine
- For Statisctic
- Machine Learning
- Better improvement display on mobile
- Animation
July 09, 2021
Power analytics tool with ETL capabilities
Qlik Sense is being used enterprise-wide, both by internal and external users. Externally, it is offered as a private-labeled product that supplements our main lines of business.
- Combining data from different sources
- Including robust security through the use of customizable rules and properties
- Allowing for more complex analysis through variables, set analysis, and SSE
- Visualizations that scale well on different display sizes
- It's a bit too complex to perform simple operations, such as rolling counts and YOY analysis
- Qlik Sense Desktop should be able to connect to an Enterprise instance. For example, people should be able to access applicable enterprise data sources in QS Desktop. Admins should have the option to publish from QS Desktop to QS Enterprise.
June 30, 2021
Qlik Sense: There's positives and negatives, but, overall, it is a helpful reporting tool
I know that Qlik Sense is used by various managers in Operations and Quality. For the Operations department, they view Lab Specific and Customer Specific trends (revenue and volume data). For Quality, it is used as a Global data access tool - compiling all Quality Metrics in one App for Top Level managers and Quality managers to view.
- can handle various data sources - Oracle, Google Sheets, etc
- clickable chart objects provide easier filtering
- view data table behind any chart object
- customizing charts could improve - add more options
- downloaded excel data file should remove all formatting - manually updating this is a pain at times
- add more customization to the Stories
June 23, 2021
Qlik Sense, good tool, room for growth
Qlik Sense is used by the entire organization. It helps us distribute reporting and analytics to a wide range of end users. We have dedicated developers and then the entire organization can leverage what is built by developers.
- Responsive to browser size due to JavaScript framework
- Easy to build tables, charts, graphs
- Clean, elegant looking visuals
- Robust scripting language
- Limited options when adjusting colors of graphs and charts
- Limited options for adjust[ing] how graphs and charts look or [how] users interact with them
- If QlikView has 1000 knobs to turn, Qlik Sense has 100. This hurts developers ability to build robust reports and applications
- Many new features are cloud only
- No unified hub for View and Sense for on premise solutions